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Conclave 2024
Vulgar Europe has been allowed to breach the walls of the Vatican, and so, for our sins, we must consume countless images of would-be Popes loading espresso machines and ripping vape pens. Unless you are a particularly naive Catholic peasant of fifteenth-century Europe, you will not be shocked to see profane self-interest running amok in the most sacred realm of human existence. But those familiar rhythms of alliance and betrayal, trust and suspicion, so regular you can tap your feet…
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On Dangerous Ground 1951
Something miraculous is happening with tangibility in this movie, a kind of revolt of touch against the reign of vision. Ida Lupino’s blindness makes us recognize that we are being made to see only a small part of what she cannot see. We share much of her blindness but are all the better for it—as is Robert Ryan when he is led to her by the sounds of lessons past, echoing. The film takes as its subject the differences between…
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Meantime 1983
Thatcher’s England, where the only thing worse than being exploited on the labor market is being expelled from it. Meantime’s ‘meantime’ is the experience of both: the empty time of ‘temporary’ unemployment—kicking beer cans down alleyways, washing clothes at the laundromat—and the ‘temporary’ underpaid work that forces a decision out of the timid Collin and raises the family’s underlying tensions to outright conflict. The conflicts themselves are usually nothing more than clashing forms of class resentment (resignation, violence, envy). Maybe…
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